Parrot 3.9.0 News:
- Core
+ The whiteknight/kill_threads branch was merged, which removes the old and broken
thread/concurrency implementation. Better and more flexible concurrency primitives
are currently being worked on. This also involved removing some of the last vestiges
of assembly code from Parrot as well as removing the share and share_ro vtables.
+ random_lib.pir was removed, since better alternatives already exist
+ The freeze and thaw vtables were removed from Default PMC, because they weren't
useful and caused hard-to-find bugs.
+ A new subroutine profiling runcore was added. It can be enabled with the command-line
argument of -R subprof . The resulting data can be analyzed with kcachegrind.
+ Added get_string VTABLE to FixedIntegerArray and FixedFloatArray PMCs
+ The update() method was added to the Hash PMC, which updates one Hash with the contents
of another. This speeds up rakudo/nqp startup time.
- Languages
+ Winxed
- Updated snapshot to version 1.3.0
- Added the builtin sleep
- Modifier 'multi' allows some more multi functionality
- Community
+ New repo for the Parrot Alternate Compiler Toolkit, a re-implementation of
PCT in Winxed: https://github.com/parrot/PACT
- Documentation
+ We are in the process to migrating our Trac wiki at http://trac.parrot.org/ to Github
at https://github.com/parrot/parrot/wiki
+ Packfile PMC documentation was updated
- Tests
+ Select PMC tests improved to pass on non-Linuxy platforms